Bio_Logic Responsive Building Technology

Working Hypothesis:How can a sustainable, zero waste, prospective architectural element be obtained by utilizing the tulip’s adaptive and self-regulating strategies for survival as seen its own ecosystem? By replicating the tulip’s response strategies for protection and reproduction during the processes of turgidity and osmosis, the prototype model illustrates similar expansion and contraction movements displayed in auxetic form through shape shifting cell properties. Heat and water are both contributors for the tulip’s response mechanisms to function within its ecosystem with the opening of petals during pollination, and closing of petals for protection. Replicating the self-regulating strategy using heat, the prototype further elicits architectural design solution possibilities that provide an intimate relationship between the outdoor and interior environment. These design solutions can provide protective shading strategies, natural light diffusion, and daylight re-appropriation for human comfort and productivity. Design solutions have the potential to achieve a sustainable, zero waste ratio in relation to energy consumption and light pollution mandated through their practical designs.